Boston was selected on Thursday as the American candidate city that will bid to host the 2024 Olympics, taking the first strides in a grueling marathon to bring the Summer Games back to the United States.

Starbucks Corp on Thursday said Chief Operating Officer Troy Alstead, who as finance chief helped lead the coffee chain's extensive restructuring a few years ago, is taking an extended unpaid leave to spend more time with his family.

Starbucks Corp on
Thursday said Chief Operating Officer Troy Alstead, who as
finance chief helped lead the coffee chain's extensive
restructuring a few years ago, is taking an extended unpaid
leave to spend more time with his family.

The deadly attack in Paris this week is complicating Republican lawmakers' plans to force a showdown with President Barack Obama over funding for the sprawling government agency that spearheads U.S. counterterrorism efforts.

Negative economic reports from Europe and positive U.S. data pushed the euro to a fresh nine-year low on Thursday for a fifth day of losses as diverging monetary policies continued to bolster the greenback.

With temperatures in New York expected to plummet again on Thursday night, the city is putting into effect its "Code Blue" emergency measures for the third night in a row to get thousands of homeless people off the streets and into warm shelters.

The euro wallowed near a nine-year
low on Friday on growing expectations the European Central Bank
will embark on quantitative easing, while the dollar held firm
before U.S. jobs data that could cement the case for a rate hike
by the Federal Reserve.

While Sebastian Vettel has turned his nose up at Formula E, describing the electric car racing series as "cheese", its chief executive hopes the four-times world Formula One champion would one day get behind the wheel of a battery-powered race car.

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American whiskey exports slumped in the second half of 2018, taking a blow from higher duties by the country’s trading partners following President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, an industry group said on Thursday.

The Democratic head of a U.S. congressional investigative panel on Thursday pressed the White House for information on whether President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, used the unofficial WhatsApp messaging tool to communicate sensitive or classified information with foreign leaders.

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